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Music with Sound (1990) 01 Beautiful state 02 Green blue beautiful place 03 Whole new animal 04 Different tool 05 Please help me 06 Positive will 07 Do you think it's an accident 08 Desire 09 Elevator music 10 Rah rah up and down 11 I can't help you at all sorry 12 I can't do it 13 Another blue night 14 More difficult 15 I'm waiting 16 Waves of waves 17 Earlids 18 Stress 19 Coma 20 Creditwise 21 From the tide or the wind 22 Scientists are working 23 Pens pencils stationery 24 The great inspiration 25 Architectural requirements 26 Message ... 27 'o' for frog 28 ... of rebellion 29 is the night Blue 30 XT92 007 31 Metro pulse 32 Know why 33 I can't play it Music with Sound is probably the best-known of the Tape-beatles' works. First released in 1990, it demonstrates clear development from the crude musique-concrete techniques of their earlier work, making use of more sophisticated editing and mixing techniques. Beyond that, it also delves into challenging conceptual territory through their iconoclastic attitude towards such (then largely unquestioned) notions as copyright and artistic originality. Writing in Factsheet Five, August 1991, Phil Zampino clearly says: ""...If [the Tape-beatles' plagiarism] immediately offends you, one can only point out that the deft assemblages, amazing sense of timing, and the wit and wonder of the work justifies their methods and makes it a [recording] that one can only marvel at. And listen to over and over, discovering where your reference of sound and theirs collide." Mark Frauenfelder, writing for bOING-bOING no. 7, says: ""By grabbing infonoise from everyday living and presenting it in a new format, sounds take on new meaning. Listen to this one time and you will become a Tape-beatle whether you want to be one or not." As a completely Plagiarized® work, Music with Sound has been in turn itself plagiarized on numerous occasions. (The Orb have become Tape-beatles, too, by Frauenfelder's definition.) Someday soon, you'll say to yourself, I'll remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I first heard The Tape-beatles' Music with Sound. Composed by: Linda Morgan Brown Lloyd Dunn John Heck Ralph Johnson Paul Neff Performed by: Linda Morgan Brown Lloyd Dunn John Heck Ralph Johnson Paul Neff Video and film by: Linda Morgan Brown Lloyd Dunn John Heck Cassette release (1990): Plagiarism® Cassettes, Iowa City, Iowa CD release (1990): DOVentertainment, Toronto, Canada Expanded CD release (1997): Staalplaat, Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Berlin, Germany Picture disk LP (1998): Staalplaat, Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Berlin, Germany CD release (1999): Staalplaat, Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Berlin, Germany Additional material at: http://pwp.detritus.net/works/recordings |